If I Fell Into a Black Hole (and other cosmic questions): with Dr. Dan Batcheldor

TheThinkingAtheist

The Thinking Atheist

Science, Society & Culture, Education

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🗓️ 14 January 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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What is space/time? Did the Big Bang make a sound? What would happen if you fell into a black hole? An astrophysicist joins us this week.

VIDEO: The Story of You
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0:00.0	Okay, here we got. Stand by. Three, two, one.
0:04.6	The thinking atheist, it's not a person. It's a symbol. An idea.
0:10.6	The population of atheists in this country is going through the room.
0:14.0	Rejecting faith. Pursuing knowledge. Challenging the sacred.
0:18.6	If I tell the truth, it's because I tell the truth.
0:22.4	Not because I put my hand on a book and made a wish.
0:25.7	And working together for a more rational world.
0:29.0	Take the risk of thinking for yourself.
0:31.0	Much more happiness, truth, beauty, and wisdom will come to you that way.
0:35.6	Assume nothing.
0:37.3	Question everything. And start nothing. Question everything.
0:39.4	And start thinking.
0:42.2	This is the Thinking Atheist podcast, hosted by Seth Andrews.
0:51.4	Last spring, I put about three weeks of time and, I don't know, too much money into a video.
1:04.3	A think piece about our place in the cosmos.
1:08.4	It was called The Story of You.
1:13.2	Nobody watched it. Nobody cares.
1:23.5	Meanwhile, a young woman known as the Hawk Tua girl got squillions of views on YouTube and TikTok and elsewhere after talking about how she would make sex spicier by spitting on someone's
1:29.4	manhood. I think this is really a commentary on the state of the world, right? Tick-Tock sensation,
1:36.9	Logan Moffat got 45 million views by giving a cucumber recipe. I got 12,000 for the story of you.
1:46.4	Reagan, the Olympic breakdancer, got squillions of views.
1:52.6	The story of you is pretty much invisible.
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